Amy
Goals: Drink a gallon of water a day and get on the treadmill for At least 30 minutes every day.
I had a very busy week as usual and I am finding it very hard to fit my new healthier life into my very busy schedule. Every week I look at my schedule to see what I have coming up and every week my schedule is completely full. And the hard thing with that is even when I do have time to be honest I am so tired that when I do have a free moment I really just want to sit on my butt and do absolutely nothing. Still struggling to take those free moments now and fill them with exercise.
The best days I had with exercising were one day when my blog buddies asked how exercising was going and I again had done nothing that day but since they asked me I didn't want to lie to them and say I had so I found a quick and easy thing to do and did it. Well I say quick and easy but for me it really wasn't. It should have been quick and easy but I am so out of shape it was hard for me. Boy was that a wake up call. On paper it looked easy but when you are 230 lbs some things are not so easy. Also to those of you who don't know me well I have had 4 ankle surgeries and a knee surgery. In my last ankle surgery they took bone from my knee to correct the problem which did correct the ankle problem but now I have knee issues. I really didn't think it bothered me that much until I did that exercise. Even something as simple as a jumping jack was hard and hurt. But that is no excuse. I can get on a treadmill or on our exercise bike and do that without pain. I also told Sydney when she gets out of school I want to her to go do some water aerobics with me at the gym. Truthfully I don't want to go alone because typically it's a bunch of old people that do it and I don't want to be the youngest one there. I know that sounds stupid but it's the truth. Lol I also one day got to school early to pick Savannah up and instead of playing on my phone I opted to go to the gym and walk on the treadmill. I was pretty proud of myself for that. In the past I would have chosen the phone.
So now to explain my title this week. One of the many things I did this week is go to my son's field day at school. I sat there all day and watched the events. They ran as one of the races a 400 meter race. Many of the children struggled to finish a race that long. I wondered as I watched them why did they volunteer for something so hard and I felt sorry for them as they struggled to finish. They had this announcer that when they kids would have a hard time finishing she would keep saying "just keep running, just keep running" and it worked they would keep running and finish! So I figured out that even though it is hard and I don't want to do it some days I need to....JUST KEEP SWIMMING, JUST KEEP SWIMMING!!!
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